Happy Holidays

I'm sorry it's been so long, friends. I hope that some of you are still with me. I got out of writing when matt was away and the Christmas pretty much hit us like a Mack truck. We usually ease into Christmas by starting shopping in Oct. or Nov., but with Matt gone I didn't start and we had to shop quick and crazy in the first two weeks of Dec. so that we could get everything shipped back to Texas.

It was an odd Christmas for the Chicago Lyles. For about 8 Christmases, we've been so active seeing all of our family and loved ones over the week off (or month when we were in school.) It was a frantic week, but always nice to see everyone and I love to plan things, so the tight scheduling was a challenge and satisfying. This year we literally had no where to go. We went to the movies on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and had a nice dinner on Christmas Day. So laid back and nice to be just me and my hubby.

We saw

It was GREAT! What a creative plot set-up and an unexpectedly sweet love story. A really fun ride of a movie with a bizarre Bollywood dance sequence at the end.














also saw this

A little long, a little bland, lovely to look at, but had to wait 2 hours for the motorcycle money shot. Had sort of a Titanic mixed with Forrest Gump type of thing going on. Pretty fantastic effects, but jut too long!










and this

Saw this on New Year's Day. Clint Eastwood is terrific! And his cast of mostly non-actor Hmong-Americans offered really "real" performances.


A good holiday week at the movies.

Pretty half-assed reviews...

Matt and I sent off Bootstraps' application to take The Boxer to the New York Fringe Festival. I blew angel kisses into the envelope before it went. We're feeling confident that we've got what it takes to get in, but won't find out until the end of April. I guess we'll just try to put it to the back of our minds until then.

We're going to see a student-directed production of The Boxer at University of Michigan at the end of Jan. and will be back in Dallas for the Premiere of matt's new play, Hello Human Female in Feb.


I was going to do a 2008 year in review for ya... maybe a little later :)